First TKFGB Squad Training in 2017 behind us. More than 20 seniors and 30 juniors trained on Sunday’s afternoon at Princess Royal Sports Arena in Boston.
Well spent 3 hours for cardio, kata principles and kumite applications (and obviously fan). Great job everybody! (photos courtesy of: Patka Aparatka)
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3^rd Traditional Karate Santa Claus Cup Boston 2016

On Saturday, 10 December 2016, over 100 children participated in the 3rd edition of St Claus Cup in Boston. Great day, full of positive energy, good effort, new friendships and fun. Official results below:

 Individual Kata up to 7 kyu – 2011 – 2009:

• Liliana Furmaniak – TKA Peterborough
• Nikodem Swiech – TKA Boston
• Milana Rubina – TKA Boston
• Nikita Prosekov – TKA Lincoln

Individual Kata up to 7 kyu – 2008 – 2007:

• Patryk Sobol – TKA Lincoln
• Deivid Marezha – TKA Boston
• Ksenija Markelova – TKA Boston
• Kamile Zubovaite – TKA Boston

Individual Kata up to 7 kyu – 2006 & older:

• Max Brusniak – TKC Nyuanshin London
• Khim Stokes – TKA Boston
• Daniel Szypulski – TKA Boston
• Victoria Kalli – TKC Nyuanshin London

Individual Kata 6 kyu+ – 2008 – 2007r:

• Alina Rubina – TKA Boston
• Ernest Skarzynskij – TKA Boston
• Kirill Snikeris – TKA Boston
• Nadia Kedra – TKA Boston

Individual Kata 6 kyu+ – 2006:

• Adriana Peiseniece – TKA Boston
• Matthew Everett – TKC Okami Bournemouth
• Patryk Godzisz – TKA Boston
• Timofiej Kabak – TKA Spalding

Individual Kata 6 kyu+ – 2005 & older:

• Filip Majchrzak – TKA Boston
• Kacper Leszczynski – TKC Okami Bournemouth
• Kornelia Malczewska – TKA Boston
• Natalia Szypulska – TKA Boston

Individual Kumite:

• Filip Majchrzak – TKA Boston
• Adriana Peiseniece – TKA Boston
• Timofiej Kabak – TKA Spalding
• Kirill Snikeris – TKA Boston

Team Kata:

• TKAB 2 – Adriana Peiseniece, Kirill Snikeris, Patryk Godzisz
• TKAB 1 – Kornelia Malczewska, Filip Majchrzak, David Swiech
• Okami – Matthew Everett, Anna Leszczynska, Kacper Leszczynski
• TKAB 3 – Alina Rubina, Ernest Skarzynskij, Johno Hinds

Congratulations to all participants!

For the two days of 14^th and 15^th of October the Polish historical City of Cracow became the capital of world karate. Tauron Arena – the venue – filled in with over two thousand competitors from most of the Earth’s continents: both Americas, Europe, Asia (Middle and Far East). They all came to prove they were the best in what we all do and love: Traditional Karate, our lives’ passion.

The UK National Squad, a group of the best practitioners and competitors selected by the Board of TKFGB, turned up, too. We eventually managed to gather a considerable number of twenty five competitors in all age categories: children, cadets and seniors – quite remarkable looking at the size of our new Federation.

The expectations were high and the performance even exceeded those. For the first time in the short history of our Federation we brought two medals from an event of this calibre:

These are even more valuable acknowledging the almost absolute domination of the Polish young competitors over all the other teams.

Also the Senior Kumite team were very close to fighting for the podium. They eventually had to admit the Czech team’s supremacy, but by two points, only.

We spent the last year preparing hard and once again, the competition turned out to be a best possible training and the confrontation of actual skills in a situation of fighting against the strongest possible opponents. Progress was recorded and conclusions have been made; we are already planning the training framework for the next year’s European Championships.

Over 70 members of the Traditional Karate-Do Federation of Great Britain spent the weekend in Peterborough, learning new skills and improving their knowledge in the open karate seminar conducted by Sensei Andrzej Olech, 6th Dan. The subject was “the body system” – connection between correct body posture and a breathing; principles of the system have been applied in kata and kumite.
At the end of the seminar most of the participants had an opportunity to test their skills in kata and kumite. For the TKFGB team it was the last test before incoming World Traditional Karate Championships Cracow ORLEN 2016.
Official results below:

Well done everybody!